Christopher Quotes
Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.
He (Frederick II) famously describe Poland as an 'artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf
More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.
Humankind has turned the world into a cruel and at times inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.
Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.
There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.
She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.
You reach a point where the pain gets so acute you do not feel it anymore, but to reach that point, you experience so much pain that you're unable to forget the suffering that led you there.
Greatness is measured by those who like to think. Success is measured by those who like to receive.
The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.
After all, as Franco would dictate, everyone was going to lose their money at some point. You may as well do so half drunk and at the mercy of a pretty smile.
What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.
My heart is full and my weapon is clean.
So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast."This is death toast sweety.
I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.
Come, kiss me sweet, and then let us return to bed, for I am tired, and I would sleep.
In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.
You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.
Sometimes the grass gets mowedat the house where the writer lives.
A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.
Finding one’s place in the world is never easy.Have courage and be true to who you are.Remember, those who dare to be different areOften the ones who change the world.
To become successful online, you only need to remember the following : Good Heart + Passion + Web Design + SEO + Digital Marketing + Dedication + Positiveness + Patience = Success
I had imagined myself into existence. I wrote because of an inner need, and that need was to create a clearer vision of myself, and in writing I became what I wrote.
There was a duplication of myself involved, perhaps even a triplication.There was I who was writing. There was I whom I could remember. And there was I of whom I wrote, the protagonist of the story.
He gets away with it because he's strong.''This is the story of mankind.''I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.''Yes. But then I read the newspaper.
Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or speaking over an instant message chat.
That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.
Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet".
Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try, " Ernest Hemingway in "Blast".
Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.
I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they call Bow Wow.
The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.
Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.
Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.
I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.
My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves
